8:47 PM,
Mar. 6, 2013

Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti has an annual salary of $410,000, less than the national average of over $500,000.

Written by

Keith Sargeant
| @RUScuttlebutt

Athletic directors across the country earn an average salary of more than $500,000, increasing more than 14 percent since USA Today last looked at AD compensation in October 2011. But at Rutgers, Tim Pernetti remains a relative bargain.

His $410,000 annual take comes in a year when he secured Rutgers' financial future by joining the Big Ten last November.

Athletics directors at schools in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (excluding four that moved up to the FBS in 2012) make an average salary of roughly $515,000, according to a USA Today special report released Wednesday. ...